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The Council also determined Closing Orders made in respect of
1, 2, 3 and 4, Chadbourne Street, which premises had been closed during
the year 1911 and rendered fit for human habitation.
Regulations* as to Underground Rooms habitually used
as Sleeping Places. Section 17 (7).
Housing Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909.
The consent of the Local Government Board was given on April 21st,
1911, to the above Regulations.
During the year the Seal of the Council was affixed to a Closing
Order, under Section 17, Sub-section 7, of the Housing, Town Tlanning,
etc., Act, 1909, in respect of a back underground basement room at 90,
Lefevre Eoad, habitually used as a sleeping place, and which did not
comply with the regulations made by the Council, with the consent of
the Local Government Board, under the said Act.
Cheap Trains Bill.
A Bill was introduced into the House of Commons to amend the law
relating to cheap trains for the working classes.
The purpose of this Bill is to remove some of the difficulties
experienced in London and other large towns in housing the working
classes, by making provision for an ample service of trains for workmen,
so as to provide a cheaper means of communication between the central
stations and the outer suburbs.
"The Cheap Trains Act of 1883, 46 and 47 Vict. c. 34, by means of
which a bargain was struck between the nation and the railway companies,
requires all companies to provide proper and sufficient workmen's
trains for workmen going to and returning from their work, at such fares
and such times between six p.m. and eight a.m. as may appear to the
Board of Trade to be reasonable."
There has been no general legislation on this subject since 1883,
*Set out in extenso on pages 212-215 of Annual Report of Medical Officer of
Health, 1910.